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Visit Burra Burra (Monster Mine), Burra, South Australia
Until 1860 the mine was the largest metals mine in Australia. From 1845 to 1877 the mine produced approximately 50,000 tonnes of copper. The mine was reopened as a modern open cut in 1971, operating for a decade with 24,000 tonnes of copper extracted. The mine's Adelaide operation was run by Henry Ayers, secretary of SAMA, from its opening until the 1890s. Henry Roach... -
Visit Cahaba, Alabama
Cahaba, also spelled Cahawba, was the first permanent state capital of Alabama from 1820 to 1825, and county seat of Dallas County, Alabama until 1866. It suffered a major flood in 1865 and the state legislature moved the county seat to Selma, which was better situated. The former settlement is now a ghost town and state historic site. The site is located southwest of... -
Visit Calabasas, Arizona
(Spanish for "pumpkins") is a former populated place or ghost town, within the Census-designated place of Rio Rico, a suburb of Nogales in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Originally settled by the Spanish in 1756 as Mission San Cayetano de Calabazas with seventy-eight O'odham to the site from their village ofToacuquitanearer the Santa Cruz River to the new site on the blu... -
Visit Calico, California
Calico is a ghost town and former mining town in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert region of Southern California, it was founded in 1881 as a silver mining town, and today has been converted into a county park. Located off Interstate 15, it lies 3 miles (4.8 km) from Barstow and 3 miles from Yermo. G... -
Visit Campochiaro (Rhodes), Greece
Campochiaro is a stunning Italian ghost town on Rhodes. It has been untouched since the Nazi party left. There's the Nazi HQ and a sanatorium, both safe and free to walk around and explore. -
Visit Candelaria, Nevada
Candelaria is a ghost town in Mineral County, Nevada, approximately 121 miles southeast of Fallon. Today the site of Candelaria is dominated by the Kinross Gold Candelaria Mine on Mt. Diablo. Candelaria was founded in 1864 when Mexican prospectors working the area discovered silver deposits on the northern slopes of the mountain. In 1873, the camp's most profitable mi... -
Visit Canyon Diablo Ghost Town, Arizona
Canyon Diablo is a ghost town in Coconino County, Arizona, United States on the edge of the arroyo Canyon Diablo. The community was settled in 1880 and died out in the early 20th century. The town, which is about 12 mi (19 km) northwest of Meteor Crater, was the closest community to the crater when portions of the meteorite were removed. Consequently, the ... -
Visit Capitol City, Colorado
Capitol City is a ghost town in Hinsdale County, Colorado, on the Alpine Loop National Scenic Back Country Byway. Capitol City was founded in 1877, originally named Galena City. At its peak, the city boasted around 800 citizens and its founders wished it had become the capital of Colorado. Today only the post office, a structure called "Lee's Smelter Stack", some rubb... -
Visit Cassilis, Victoria, Australia
Cassilis is a ghost town in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. It was named after a district and castle in Ayrshire, Scotland. In the late 19th century, at the peak of the gold boom, it was a thriving mining centre and home to more than 500 people. Gold-bearing quartz reefs were discovered in 1885 at Long Gully, and by 1889 there was a battery in operation as well as a g... -
Visit Castle Gate, Utah
Castle Gate is a ghost town located in Carbon County in eastern Utah, United States. Castle Gate was a mining town approximately 90 miles (140 km) southeast of Salt Lake City. The name of the town was derived from a rock formation near the mouth of Price Canyon. This formation features two sheer sandstone walls on either side of the Price River, which appear to open l... -
Visit Cedar Pipeline Ranch, Nevada
The abandoned Cedar Pipeline Ranch is located along the Extraterrestrial Highway (Nevada State Route 375). A natural spring gives life to a group of trees. Except for this "oasis" the surrounding desert is very dry, and fenced off on two sides by the restricted Nellis Range complex, limiting the available grazing land for the cattle. Nuclear ... -
Visit Centralia, Pennsylvania
Centralia is a borough and near-ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from more than 1,000 residents in 1980 to only 7 in 2013—a result of the coal mine fire which has been burning beneath the borough since 1962. All real estate in the borough was claimed under eminent domain in 1992 and therein condemned by the ... -
Off-road to Cerro Gordo Mines, California
The Cerro Gordo Mines are a collection of abandoned mines located in the Inyo Mountains, in Inyo County, California. Mining operations were undertaken from 1866 until 1957, producing high grade silver, lead, and zinc ore. Some ore was smelted on site, but larger capacity smelters were eventually constructed along the shore of nearby Owens Lake. These smelting operatio... -
Visit Chacabuco Saltpeter Works, Chile
Chacabuco is one of the many abandoned nitrate or "saltpeter" towns ("oficinas salitreras" in Spanish) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Other nitrate towns of the Atacama Desert include Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works. Unlike most of the other ghost towns in the Atacama Desert, Chacabuco became a concentration camp during the Pinochet regime in 197... -
Visit Charleston, Nevada
Charleston is a ghost town in Elko County, Nevada, United States. It lies along the Bruneau River just south of the Mountain City and Jarbidge Ranger Districts of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and is near the southwest edge of the Jarbidge Wilderness. The Charleston settlement was established in 1876 when gold was discovered in Seventy-Six Creek, at the southwe...
